Originally packaged with chewing gum by Topps Chewing Gum, Brooklyn, New York, long-time makers of sports cards. In 1975, Mike Mandel traveled around the U.S. with baseball equipment and uniforms to produce a series of portraits of notable photographers, curators, art historians and critics of the day. Some of these names will be familiar, others not.

"The project satirized the phenomenon of the fine art photography community being consumed by the larger art world and commercial culture. I photographed photographers as if they were baseball players and produced a set of cards that were packaged in random groups of ten, with bubble gum, so that the only."--Mike Mandel